Questioning the politics of CMS

Taskin, Laurent [UCL] Huault, Isabelle [PSL - Université Paris-Dauphine] Palpacuer, Florence [Université de Montpellier 1] Perret, Véronique [PSL - Université Paris-Dauphine]

While the origin and early developments of critical management studies appear to share identical foundations and similar purposes, CMS today clearly cover a wide range of approaches, theories and methodologies, as well as disparate communities of men and women who redraw its boundaries every day. The role of ‘critters’ in denouncing the failings of the capitalist system and related forms of market and corporate governance is another meeting point between the proponents of critical approaches to management. This community of thinkers is nonetheless experiencing clashes under the pressure of multiple tensions, two of which we feel are of particular concern...